No Outsiders
At Hexham First School, we believe in the importance of equality and everybody having the same opportunities. This is modelled by our staff and taught through lessons and other experiences both discretely and explicitly. One of the subjects that this is taught through is the subject of PSHE ( Personal Social, Health Education)
As part of our PSHE curriculum, we follow a scheme called No Outsiders. This scheme was created by Andrew Moffat MBE, who was nominated for the Global Teacher Prize in 2018-19. No Outsiders has three core values:
- Respect for diversity through education in schools;
- Commitment to community cohesion through understanding and acceptance of difference;
- Promotion of dialogue to counter fear and hate in society.
No Outsiders is a scheme that was introduced to Governors and parents at our school in Septmeber 2024 and it involves the use of age appropriate story books (see below for a list of the books we use) to teach about seven of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010. These include:
- age;
- disability;
- gender reassignment;
- race;
- religion or belief;
- gender;
- sexual orientation.